set gmail as default email client
Another quickie. The only email client I use is gmail. Nothing else is as good, in my opinion, especially with the keyboard shortcuts and all the “plugins” (lab features) that can be added to it. So, when I click on an email address to send an email to someone from a browser or from anywhere else on my system (you can start an email to your contacts from Gnome do) I want gmail to open to compose my emails, not Evolution or Thunderbird (or whatever else just happens to be installed at the time).
This is really simple if you use the Firefox web browser (and might be easily doable with other browsers too). Simply follow theses steps (NOTE: there is no command line (terminal) required for this tweak):
- In Firefox open the Applications tab in Preferences (Edit / Preferences / Applications)
- Type mailto into the search box and change the Action drop down to say Use Gmail
- Open Preferred Applications (System / Preferences / Preferred Applications)
- At the bottom of the Internet tab under the section Mail Reader select Custom from the drop down and type the following into the text box titled Command:
firefox %s
Now no matter where you start an email action from (compose email, view email, etc) Firefox should open and a new tab should load gmail.
Enjoy!
